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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Yangī Qal‘ah in Afghanistan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Yangī Qal‘ah in Afghanistan. Exact location, longitude 69.6408° East, latitude 37.3857° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:35:29 / 11:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/25 / 2025-10-07 11:35:29 / October 7, 2025 @ 11:35 am. Id of earthquake: us6000rfbw. Event ids that are associated: us6000rfbw.

Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Kunduz (c. 161 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Qŭrghonteppa (c. 65 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kunduz, Jilikŭl, Abdurahmoni Jomí.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SSE of Yangī Qal‘ah, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	69.6408° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.3857° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SSE of Yangī Qal‘ah, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-07 11:35:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-07 11:55:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	400	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.325	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000rfbw	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rfbw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rfbw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Alex wood

Man that was crazy, I thought the world was ending

October 7, 2025

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